Pwget is a simple front end to the wget utility
for Dingo (Puppy 4).
Well it would be if I could program.

Sadly I have all the programming prowess
of a bag of soggy chips, without the bag

Pwget is used for downloading larger files from the internet such as ISOs using the wget bash command. The files are verified during the download procedure. As ISO and other files are checked, they do not require a md5sum check

Little apps like this should be made voice controllable (e.g. cvoicecontrol) and able to speak (e.g espeak) as well as having a good GUI and/or CUI. It is easier to build such facility into an app at the design stage. Your first non-working version is basically just a GUI, but your last version is already getting a bit more complex. I challenge you to make it work better for the visually impaired as well as for those with good vision!

I'm sure you know how I'd do it if I were you, but my challenge is just a challenge: do it anyway you like!

The world of computing for the visually impaired would be a better place if their needs were taken into account at the design stage. It is very difficult to make, say Open Office or Microsoft Office friendly for the visually impaired; such apps have been designed for those who have good eyesight and coordination (icon/mouse-based interfaces with windows and written text).

I do realise that Dingo is unlikely to come with, for example, cvoicecontrol or espeak or similar by default, but these can be added as dotpets.

Lobster,
I'm curious about one thing. Did you try 'gCurl' in Dingo? This is a file downloader that uses libcurl. I've haven't tried it myself, just stuck it in Dingo as didn't have any other downloader._________________http://bkhome.org/news/

Ah - I knew you had added an installer but could not remember what . . .
No I have not tried it.
Basically I was in Dingo, needed to download a recent PcLinuxOS to see if the wireless would work on my laptop (it did not incidentally)
Could not find the downloader (written in tcl by Ian) and rather than use the command line (a fate worse than death ) thought it would be easier to rewrite the util for Dingo.

Also works on Puppy 2.17 using the latest pwget version now. Here is the code if you want to tweak and include in Dingo

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